Azure Storage Explorer Tool Download

Azure Storage is a Microsoft-managed service providing cloud storage that is highly available, secure, durable, scalable, and redundant. Use the extension to deploy static websites and Single Page Apps (SPAs) and browse Azure Blob Containers, File Shares, Tables, and Queues.

Visit the wiki for additional information about the extension.

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Features

Explore/Create/Delete Blob Containers, File Shares, Queues, Tables and Storage Accounts
Create, Edit, and Delete Block Blobs and Files
Upload and Download Blobs, Files, and Folders
Access Connection String and Primary Key
Open in Storage Explorer for memory or computationally heavy tasks, or for Page and Append Blob support.

Installation

Download and install the Azure Storage extension for Visual Studio Code
Once complete, you'll see an Azure icon in the Activity Bar
If your activity bar is hidden, you won't be able to access the extension. Show the Activity Bar by clicking View > Appearance > Show Activity Bar
Sign in to your Azure Account by clicking Sign in to Azure...
If you don't already have an Azure Account, click 'Create a Free Azure Account' for a free 30-day account with $200 in Azure credits to try out any combination of services.

Deploy your Single Page App to Azure Storage

Once you are signed in to your Azure account and you have your app open in Visual Studio Code, click the deploy button in the Azure Storage explorer - it's the blue up arrow - to deploy your app.

Tip: Looking for a sample app to deploy? Run npx create-react-app my-react-app to create one

Make sure you've compiled your app (run npm run build if you created a sample from create-react-app) prior to deploying it to Azure.

Choose Create New Storage Account
Type a globally unique name for your Storage Account and press Enter. Valid characters for an storage account name are 'a-z' and '0-9'
Create a new Resource Group and accept the default name
Choose a location in a region near you or near other services you may need to access
It may take up to a minute for the account to be created
When prompted, choose 'Enable website hosting' to configure your storage account for static site hosting
Enter 'index.html' for the index document path
Enter 'index.html' for the 404 error document path
Index.html is used for the error document because modern Single Page Applications (SPAs) such as React will handle errors in the client. For classic static websites, use the error document to customize your 404 page.
Select the build output from your current workspace if you have your app open already or browse to the directory containing your compiled application code
If you have a build, out, or dist directory, you'll see it as an option to deploy from.

Once the deployment completes, click Browse to Website in the prompt to view your freshly deployed website.

Settings

Use these configuration settings to customize the Azure Storage extension.

azureStorage.showExplorer: Set to false to hide Azure Storage Explorer
azureStorage.preDeployTask: Set to the name of a task to be run before deploying a static website.
azureStorage.storageExplorerLocation: [Mac only] Set to 'Path/To/Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer.app' to override the default location.
azureStorage.file.showSavePrompt: Set to false to prevent showing a warning dialog on File file save.
azureStorage.blob.showSavePrompt: Set to false to prevent showing a warning dialog on Blob file save.

Telemetry

VS Code collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our privacy statement to learn more. If you don't wish to send usage data to Microsoft you can set the telemetry.enableTelemetry setting to false. Learn more in our FAQ.

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